Hell gate--the watery grave

Chronicles the history of the back-door waterway into the Port of New York, covering the numerous shipwrecks, rescue efforts, and engineering feats that have taken place there. Highlights the massive efforts of the federal government to blast and dredge the channel and thereby reduce its peril. Hundreds of rare photographs, re-creations, observations from land, sea and air, and interviews with men who survived shipwreck and whirlpools round out this maritime account. Narrated by Alexander Scourby.